Here are the Best Video Game Assasins:
1.)Ezio Auditore, star of three of the main entry Assassin's Creed games, is perhaps the first person who comes to mind when you think of video game assassins these days. He's dabbled in everything, from taking out high profile targets to co-ordinating Brotherhood attacks, and even testing out Leonardo Da Vinci's various contraptions. As well as taking down numerous Templar foes, Ezio has also engaged in a fist fight with the Pope.
2.) Ezio may be the talk of the town, but his predecessor Altaïr wrote the book on being an assassin. Quite literally, in this case, as Ezio often has to find pages of Altaïr's codex to uncover his secrets. Altaïr returns to the main Assassin's Creed series in Revelations, playable in flashback missions. He may not have the gadgets and sense of humour of his younger counterpart, but in his day Altaïr cut an imposing figure through the Holy Land. On the rare occasions he was seen, anyway.
1.)Ezio Auditore, star of three of the main entry Assassin's Creed games, is perhaps the first person who comes to mind when you think of video game assassins these days. He's dabbled in everything, from taking out high profile targets to co-ordinating Brotherhood attacks, and even testing out Leonardo Da Vinci's various contraptions. As well as taking down numerous Templar foes, Ezio has also engaged in a fist fight with the Pope.
2.) Ezio may be the talk of the town, but his predecessor Altaïr wrote the book on being an assassin. Quite literally, in this case, as Ezio often has to find pages of Altaïr's codex to uncover his secrets. Altaïr returns to the main Assassin's Creed series in Revelations, playable in flashback missions. He may not have the gadgets and sense of humour of his younger counterpart, but in his day Altaïr cut an imposing figure through the Holy Land. On the rare occasions he was seen, anyway.
3.)Khan (Broken Sword)-Another member of the Hashashin order, taking on the Templars, but this time not an Animus in sight. Khan, the antagonist-but-not-really from Broken Sword is a master of disguise, which is to say he dresses up as a leprechaun, an old woman and a clown amongst other things. His first appearance, in Broken Sword's sublime intro movie, leads to George Stobbart trekking through Parisian sewers with a greasy tissue in his pocket. On the downside, Khan was once foiled by a novelty hand buzzer, which is a bit of a blot on the copy book.
4.) Agent 47, the bald, barcoded enigma that he is, has a somewhat convoluted backstory. But it doesn't matter, because when you're setting up an elaborate barbecue-related accident in a suburban backyard, clones and mysterious agencies seem a bit irrelevant. Not only is Agent 47 a master of gunplay, he's also pretty good at making things look like an accident. Switching out a prop gun for a real one, dropping chandeliers or knocking people into crocodile pits, this is one killer who truly earns the nickname 'silent assassin'.
5.)Cyborg Ninja stalks the corridors of Shadow Moses, dispatching soldiers and challenging Snake to a fist fight. Eventually it turns out he's there to help, and is in fact Gray Fox, a former FOXHOUND member whom Snake believed to be dead. The joyous reunion is cut short, however, when Gray Fox is crushed by a Metal Gear piloted by Liquid Snake. Ninja is armed with a high frequency blade and wears an armoured exoskeleton.
6.)HK-47, the Sith assassin droid, was created to hunt Jedi. For this he uses his proficiency with weapons, his advanced programming, and his acerbic wit. Many Jedi fell beneath his barrage of gunfire, and even more still fell prey to his sharp tongue. Eventually teaming up with the player character in Knights of the Old Republic, HK-47's assassination days may be behind him, but his distain for organic life and lust for blood have never gone away.
7.)Thane (Mass Effect) Krios is a drell assassin who joins Commander Shepard in her quest to save the galaxy. Favouring up-close-and-personal kills, Thane, much like Ezio and Altaïr, is a deeply spiritual and reflective type (who just so happens to murder people). Dying, and filled with an intense guilt, he teams up with Shepard as a form of penance to right the wrongs he's committed. The fact his head looks like a cabbage is deceptive; Thane is still one deadly killer.
8.)Rikimaru and Ayame, the duo from the majority of the Tenchu games, lurk in the shadows and kill their victims from afar with blades, shurikens and deceptively tasty poisoned rice cakes. Rikimaru is head of the Azuma ninja clan, of which Ayame is a member. Both are adept at dispatching foes silently, skulking around like only a true ninja assassin can.
9.)Assassin from Assassin is arguably the most notorious assassin there is, if only because his name is Assassin. Made by Team 17 and released on the Amiga, Assassin saw Assassin using a razor sharp boomerang to dispatch his assassination targets. Assassin doesn't much have the appearance of an assassin though, looking more like He-Man with a mullet than a deadly killer.
10.)Captain Price (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare)-From an awful hairstyle we end up at the man who singlehandedly re-popularised the handlebar moustache, Captain John Price. While not strictly an assassin all the time, the mission All Ghillied Up has Price stalking through Pripyat, sent to kill the villainous Imran Zakhaev. Unfortunately he only manages to shoot his arm off, which is probably why he's not referred to as an assassin very often. Price makes up for his hired killer faux pas by making sure to kill everything that moves during times of war (apart from his good buddy Soap, of course).
